FaeryTale

This month for Willowing the challenge was Fairy Tales. Now while I am have been watching most of this time I have seen much about actual Fairy Tales like the Queen of Hearts and Red Riding Hood. But I wanted to put a different spin on this. When I saw the theme I immediately thought of Faeries. I have been leanring on my own about Fantasy Art so I thought this would be a great time to explore. So I did a "FaeryTale" of my own.

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So what do you think of my version of the theme?

Bee-You-Ti-Ful BeeGirl

Tam is always challenging us in a variety of ways and she popped up a Random Challenge to draw a Bee Girl. This is my version for Tam's Willowing Bee Girl Art Challenge

What do you think? I think my Whimsy Girls are getting better? Comments Suggestions?

Street Man on a Blue Day

I have wanted to do this piece for some time. It has been roaming in my mind. a few months back Willowing had an art Challenge for Van Gogh inspired work. Up until now I felt I had nothing to contribute but this piece finally came to life. I bought some new Graphite Pencils and chalks and they nearly jumped into my hand and begged me to use them and allow this piece to come to life. It has taken me nine months to do this piece and truly feel like I was showcasing the feelings that I wanted to go into it.

It has a lot of meaning to ME and the person who is embodies but most likely not to anyone else. I do not desire to go into detail at this time about it but yet I hope you sill still be able to be moved by it and feel of its nature.

Street Man on a Blue Day

Featured-Willowing for September

I as happy to be announced as one of the Featured artists on Willowing!!

I was recognized as one of the Awesome People! How cool is that? Super KEWL!! 



For the Month of September I am honored to be featured on Willowing.ning.com

Pieces: Just Call Me Red, Scarlett Cutout, Poster Megan 

Make Like a Movie Star: Willowing Challenge

Here is some Digital Art I have been working on that meets the Make Like a Movie Star Challenge from Will-owing for August. I posted some on her site but look below for more!!

Summer of Color Mermaid

The weeks are counting down til the end of the Summer of Color: Ice Cream Inspiration series over at Twinkle Like a Star and I was started to get worried I would never see a blue/green combination but lo an behold, we got one! Wild and Reckless! Aren't the Colors below just fab!? Well, I think so because they were JUST the right colors I needed/wanted for a Mermaid I have been DYING to draw and color.

I have finished up all the Digital Dreams courses from Tam at Willowing and I think I really have a better handle on coloring Digitally now. I am sure I could use more training but I am getting more amazed at even myself on how much better I am getting at figures, faces and especially coloring!!

Check out my Mermaid below and tell me what you think?

Brave Girl Birdie Babe-Featured on BG

Well, I am finally done with all of Tam's Digital Dreams Course! Wow talk  about a challenge for the last one! I am not used to creating things "Completely Digital". Making a face, eyes, pupils, the little whites of your eyes, a nose, the shading in your nose, the lips, the neck, the arms, the hair, good grief. IT is alot of work!! Then there is learning how to use Dodge and Burn. Which one makes things darker and which one makes things lighter. I also learned about Brushes and then she had me at Hello! Wow! I didn't know so much could be done with brushes!! To some (I argue with the new boyfriend on this) they should not be called Brushes they should be called Stamps. I understand what he means, but nevertheless, that is what they are called. I didn't do the homework as assigned, but then I was never one to follow the rules much. :) I did however create many things in the fashion of which she said but then I also used brushes and Free Transform and things I learned from her as well as what I knew from my previous classes at Irvine Valley College.

So here she is and then i will explain.

I drew her face, eyes, eyebrows, neck and body.
I used the elliptical to make the eyes for the color and the same for the pupils. I used the Transform tool to tweak it a bit.
I used an Eyelash brush for the lashes, then Transform again to mold it to my drawing.
I used the erases tool to erase the white part out of the eye brown eye I had used and added in the two circles for color and pupil.
I used a Brush for the hair, nose, and lips and then tweaked them and made them my own.
I used a brush for the musical background as well as several different brushes for the colored splashes in the back.
The birdie is actually a brush. I did NOT draw that. Poor little guy didn't have an eye so I coped the eye pupil I made for my eye then shrank it to fit him.
I added white circles on the eyes of all for effect.
I filled the hair and then used Dodge and Burn for shading.
I colored her top and then used dodge and burn for shading there as well. Kind of looked like a sweater so I added snowflake brushes to it.
When I added the Birdie I thought of Brave Girls and how they always use "Birdies" in everything they do, so I made my words about Brave Girls.

I sent it in and was honored to be featured for their BG Daily Letters 

I could say more, so if you want to know comment and I will tell you.

Other than that, Da-aaam! Not bad for my first digital person eh?

I know I have to work at it more and do some more training with these tools but so far, not bad. I think now I can go on to her other courses where she creates more than people and adds Whimsical Characters etc.

IT has a "look and feel" to it that I want to refine but I think it's kind of cute, don't you?

Miss Strawberonade Flutterby Fairy!

Drum roll please....brushes and tweaks...here is Miss Strawberonade Flutterby Fairy!

All the sass and toughness as my other fairness but with a hint of sour and sweet of Strawberry and Lemonade!

 

This week our color for SOC2 was Strawberry Lemonade. On flip side B of my life I watched Digital Dreams by Tam and learned about Brushes. I knew about brushes before but I guess I didn't really understand how to use them until now. Oh wow! Was I hooked. I almost needed a crowbar to pull me away and pry my fingers from the computer. Tam gave us some ideas for where to load brushes and then my art friend Justin sent me a set of brushes. That made me remember the other brushes I had seen out there and well, I went a little overboard with downloading brushes. But then once I started using them, I realized, "Hmm, I don't need to load all these brushes I think. : lol

I don't have the Watermark thing figure out like Justin said, but I did Stamp my art with my Signature, Year and Month like before. I have to remember next time to take off my pencil signature before I start coloring next time. I got too far in and couldn't figure out how to get it off. I tried using the patch tool like Tam showed us, but I failed at that. 

Next week the new boyfriend is taking me away to the Amana Colonies for a week so I can relax (been very stressed lately and had some health issues) and enjoy simpler things. So I decided I would take my new Art Case and Copics and do next weeks with Markers since I am new at that too! 

Plus it will give me shoulder a chance to heal. 

Thank you so much for those who support my art Anita, Kristen, Leslie, Sonia, everyone from CED, Willowing, Goddess Guide, Summer of Color, Be Urself, Brave Girls, Ridler Studios, and everywhere else  you follow me from.

Also a thank you to JC for putting up with me and always supporting me. Without you as my friend and in my corner, I never would have gone this far and seen what I could do. Thanks for the beautiful new Sketchbooks you took the time to make for me, and for being my personal art shopper at Dick Blick until I could pay you back for Art  Tape, Pens, books, etc. 

I am also very grateful to Ben, the new boyfriend. Not many boyfriends will put up with you coming home from a day job, barely eating with you and then letting me go sit in my studio for hours nearly every night. It is what I want to do and it makes me happy so he said that makes him happy. Monday, Wednesdays, Fridays and most weekends- Saturday and Sunday are consumed by me doing art things, drawing or Digitally Coloring something, or reading something about art. Even if I am sitting next to him I now have a sketchpad and a book in my hand that teaches me "how to" something artistic and I labor over it intensely to make my art craft better and better. He doesn't really follow my blogs, but nevertheless, I know I am thanking him and it means a lot to me. 

To the rest-Hope you enjoy my fairy. I really love the comments. Especially the ones about my fairies being tough. Those have really made me smile :) You just  don't even know.....

XOXO

Trisha Trixie 

Raspberry Nut Fairy and her Fairy Nuts!

The Summer of Color Challenges Ice Cream Inspirations mixed with learning how to draw Fairies and other mythical creatures and beings  for Willowing has been a bit of a challenge for me but in a good way. I want to drive to be better at my digital art the the color challenge give a focus for what color to draw while the Willowing challenge gives me something to draw. I picked up some Fairies Tarot cards this week for inspiration and we will see if that makes a difference. I realized I lack in backgrounds and I noticed a lot more backgrounds on the cards so I hope to incorporate some of that into my drawings.

This weeks Challegen was Rasberry Nut for SOC2 so here is my Rasberry Nut Fairy and her Fairy Nuts!

Mint Chip SOC2 Angel_Willowing

Angel_Willowing_TT_900_Color copy, a photo by trishatrixie on Flickr.

This was done for my Summer of Color 2 (SOC2) Mint Choc Chip Ice Cream Inspirations Challenge.

It took me two and a half weeks to do this. It is hand drawn with pencils. Then inked. Then scanned, then brought into Photoshop and digitally colored with a mouse and then added layer upon layer ( I think I counted 27) plus I lumped on into a group, and then added blending highlighters like inner glows and outer glows and drop shadows and global light and more.

After doing that, I took all my extra savings and bought a Bamboo, Wacom Tablet. After my Art show this weekend, I am cracking that baby open and going to play with it.

I am intrigued to see how different that next one will be like!